The best Jean Carmet’s movies

Jean Carmet

Jean Carmet

25/04/1920- 20/04/1994
Today we present the best Jean Carmet’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Jean Carmet’s movies.
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My Mother's Castle

My Mother's Castle
7.6/10
My Mother's Castle (Le chateau de ma mere) is a sequel and companion piece to My Father's Glory (La Gloire de Mon Pere), both based on the childhood recollections of Marcel Pagnol. Like its predecessor, the movie explores the adventures of the young Marcel (Julien Ciamaca) during his summers at the family summer home in Provence.

Cabbage Soup

Cabbage Soup
6.5/10
2 buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup.

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 06/12/1972
  • Character: Maurice Lefebvre, Perrin's best friend
Hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being identified as a super secret agent.

Vengeance of the Three Musketeers

Vengeance of the Three Musketeers
6.5/10
Based on Alexandre Dumas père novel. Part 2.

Germinal

Germinal
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 29/09/1993
  • Character: Vincent Maheu, aka Bonnemort
It's mid 19th century, north of France. The story of a coal miner's town. They are exploited by the mine's owner. One day the decide to go on strike, and then the authorities repress them

The Fighting Musketeers

The Fighting Musketeers
6.6/10
D'Artagnan is back from England with a message for the queen. Buckingham has declared that he was ready to attack France to deliver Anne of Austria. D'Artagnan ends up arrested and thrown into prison. Musketeers wonder how to rescue their friend.

Very Happy Alexander

Very Happy Alexander
7.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/02/1968
  • Character: 'La Fringale'
Alexandre, a young and honest farmer, is oppressed by an authoritarian wife, who makes him work like a dog. When she dies in a car crash, he decides to stay in bed, absolutely free and inactive. Just a dog is occupied to carry food and newspapers to him.

Any Number Can Win

Any Number Can Win
7.3/10
Charles, fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cell mate, Francis, to assist him in pulling off one final score, a carefully planned assault on the vault of a Cannes casino.

Fugitives

Fugitives
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 17/12/1986
  • Character: Doctor Martin, veterinarian
Coming out from jail, Lucas has decided to change his life and behave like a good citizen. But when he is taken hostage in a bank by a hare-brained robber, no cops can believe he is not part of the action.

Children of Paradise

Children of Paradise
8.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 15/03/1945
  • Character: Un spectateur au paradis des Funambules (uncredited)
Filmed during the German occupation, this French milestone centers around the theatrical life of a beautiful courtesan and the four men who love her. Voted the “Best French Film in History” by the French Film Academy in 1990.

The Seventh Company Outdoors

The Seventh Company Outdoors
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 07/12/1977
  • Character: M. Albert, le passeur
The third part of Seventh Company adventures.

Buffet Froid

Buffet Froid
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 19/12/1979
  • Character: L'assassin
An absurd black comedy that cunningly reverses the conventions of the crime thriller to comment on the alienating and dehumanizing effects of contemporary urban life. Alphonse Tram is unwittingly involved in several murders despite having no memory of committing the crimes. His confusion lead him to confess to his neighbour, Inspector Morvandieu. Alphonse and Morvandieu become the axis around which murders occur.

And Soon the Darkness

And Soon the Darkness
6.6/10
Two young English women go on a cycling tour of the French countryside. When one of them goes missing, the other begins to search for her. But who can she trust?

Les Misérables

Les Misérables
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 20/10/1982
  • Character: Thénardier
The story of Jean Valjean, a Frenchman convicted of minor crimes, who is hounded for years by an unforgiving and unrelenting police inspector, Javert.

Gramps Is in the Resistance

Gramps Is in the Resistance
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 26/10/1983
  • Character: André Bourdelle
It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in truth the Germans’ most feared opponent: le super-résistant!

The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/11/1974
  • Character: Maurice Lefebvre
With 'little captain' Cambrai raising serious doubts about the reality of the so-called "super spy", Colonel Toulouse kidnaps Christine and forces Francois to play again the character of "The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe" in some fake adventures. All this to stop the investigation into the death of Colonel Milan.

Dog Day

Dog Day
5.8/10
A criminal shows up at a farmhouse with the law on his heels and several million dollars in his possession.

The Breach

The Breach
7.2/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 26/08/1970
  • Character: M. Pinelli
An innocent woman falls prey to her abusive husband, his wealthy father and a shady family friend.

Violette

Violette
7.1/10
Paris, 1933. The daughter of a respectable lower middle class couple, Violette Nozière, leads a disreputable double life. Far from being the innocent 18-year-old her parents mistake her for, she spends her nights with dissolute young men in the less salubrious areas of the city.

Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese

Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 06/09/1968
  • Character: Le convoyeur superstitieux
Rita is a girl that lives on taking gangsters as lovers. But when the money stops coming, she swears revenge.

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